• November 7 2025
  EU set to water down landmark AI act after Big Tech pressure

  Commission proposes pauses to provisions in digital rule book

  
• November 2 2025
  Martin Sandbu

  Don’t let Europe’s deregulatory temptations weaken its democracies

  A good tech strategy would aim not just to catch up but to cultivate better alternatives

  
• October 30 2025
  Europe Express

  Capgemini chief calls for EU’s flagship rules on AI to be suspended

  Also in this newsletter: Merz visits Erdoğan in Ankara

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• October 24 2025
  EU accuses Meta of failing to police illegal content online

  Tech giant faces penalty of up to 6% of global annual revenue

  
• October 8 2025
  Meta and Apple close to settling EU cases

  US Big Tech groups in final stages of agreeing deal with Brussels to avoid series of escalating fines

  
• September 28 2025
  Brussels told to prove digital rules do not ‘punish’ US tech or fix them

  Donald Trump’s ambassador to EU says no US president can ‘allow these kinds of infringements’ on American companies

  
• September 25 2025
  Big Tech

  Apple demands EU scrap landmark digital rules

  Big Tech rules have become a point of tension in trade talks with Donald Trump’s administration

  
• September 23 2025
  EU targets Apple, Google and Microsoft over online financial scams

  Brussels to look closer into US Big Tech groups and Booking Holdings over handling of fake apps and search results

  
• September 22 2025
  FT News Briefing podcast12 min listen

  Big Tech is losing a battle with Brussels

  US tech titans want access to EU financial data market, but European groups are pushing back

  
• September 21 2025
  EU to block Big Tech from new financial data sharing system

  Germany argues groups such as Apple and Meta are excluded to protect Europe’s ‘digital sovereignty’

  
• September 12 2025
  Microsoft avoids EU fine after competition probe

  US tech group faced scrutiny over bundling of Teams and Office products

  
• September 5 2025
  Trump tariffs

  Trump threatens retaliatory tariffs after EU hits Google with €2.95bn fine

  US president criticises ‘very unfair’ measures a day after he hosts tech chiefs at the White House

  
• September 2 2025
  Europe Express

  How Meta is using the Trump administration to lobby against EU tech rules

  Also in this newsletter: Two of Europe’s most pro-Russian leaders travel to Beijing for a military parade

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• August 29 2025
  Stand up to Trump on Big Tech, says EU antitrust chief

  Bloc must be prepared to walk away from trade deal with US if it retaliates against Brussels’ digital laws, warns Teresa Ribera

  
• August 26 2025
  EU stands its ground on digital rules despite Trump warning

  US president threatens retaliatory tariffs on countries that ‘discriminate’ against American tech groups

  
• August 25 2025
  Abraham Newman

  Europe urgently needs a remedy for the ‘Brussels defect’

  The EU must stop thinking it can turn thorny political controversies into solvable technical issues

  
• July 30 2025
  Google set to sign EU code of practice on development of AI

  Move set to boost efforts to regulate artificial intelligence in face of opposition from Meta and pressure from US

  
• July 28 2025
  Ecommerce

  Brussels accuses China’s Temu of breaking EU digital rules

  European Commission says ecommerce group failing to do enough to tackle sale of illegal products

  
• July 25 2025
  Meta to pull political ads in EU in response to new disinformation rules

  Facebook and Instagram owner says new transparency regulations are ‘unworkable’ in latest attack on Brussels

  
• July 21 2025
  X Corp

  X slams French criminal probe over alleged algorithm ‘manipulation’

  Lawmaker reported allegations over moderation and rightwing content on social media platform

  
• July 21 2025
  The Big Read

  Can Europe break free of American tech supremacy?

  The continent’s dependence on US groups for digital infrastructure is causing growing concern among executives and policymakers

  
• July 21 2025
  FT News Briefing podcast11 min listen

  Trump’s $50bn tariff haul

  Most major US trading partners have yet to retaliate against Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs

  
• July 17 2025
  Brussels stalls probe into Elon Musk’s X amid US trade talks

  EU was expected to finalise its investigation before the bloc’s summer recess but will now miss this deadline

  
• July 10 2025
  EU pushes ahead with AI code of practice

  Brussels publishes delayed rules despite fierce lobbying from the US government and companies

  
• July 3 2025
  European CEOs urge Brussels to halt landmark AI Act

  The heads of Airbus and BNP Paribas join intense lobbying effort against new regulations